Oracle Access Governance: Simplified and easy to use identity governance

Identity governance and administration (IGA) is a vital component of any organization's information security strategy. This blog post highlights the simplified intuitive user interface and intelligent access governance capabilities of Oracle Access Governance that enable organization to implement reliable IGA solution, fulfil the principle of least privileges, and address following IGA challenges:

• No visibility into access assigned to identities (users and applications) over distributed IT systems. Excessive privileges are a primary target of attackers to run malicious activities.
• Complexity in identity management and access governance across multiple integrations.
• Lengthy access reviews, audit cycles, and incomplete and ambiguous data create confusion in remediation actions.
• Overly permissive and generalized policies giving broad or unrestricted privileges.
• Manual governance of cloud entitlements is unfeasible and risky. Security teams often approve unnecessary privileges to identities.

Oracle Access Governance offers a cloud native IGA solution as a service. It enables organizations to manage identities and to govern access across multiple on-premises systems, cloud platforms, and applications. Built from ground up and easy to use, it focuses on simplification of user experience and enables business owners, security owners, and access approvers to perform their tasks efficiently.

Quick setup and faster integrations

You can integrate Access Governance with an unlimited number of sources of identity and access data. It provides wizard-based orchestration to govern access to on-premises and cloud resources and applications. You can set up the integration with on-premises systems using an identity-orchestration agent based in Docker. To integrate with cloud services including infrastructure, platform, and software as a service (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) applications, you can use APIs. For more details, see Access Governance Integration with Connected Systems.

Visibility into access profiles

The always-on Access Governance continuously discovers users, groups, roles, applications, privileges, and policies from the integrated applications and services. It provides a centralized dashboard to view access privileges assigned to identities in both top-down and bottom-up methods. Top-down regulates who (which identity) can access what (resources and services), and bottom-up regulated what (resources and services) can be accessed by whom (identities).

This consolidated view enables business owners to manage access effectively, meet regulatory requirements, and strengthen overall security. For more details, see View access to resources.

Intelligent access reviews

You can use Access Governance to run intelligent access review campaigns. With spontaneous and periodic access review campaigns, business owners can also enable event-driven micro-certifications, which are automatically triggered for an identity when their attributes, such as organization or manager, get updated. Preadded workflows automatically perform the series of actions associated with the access review campaign. 

Access reviews are easy to interpret and remove the time-consuming and manual process of creating reports. Access Governance provides intuitive analytics based on charts and graphs, enabling stakeholders to review the correct data with minimal effort. 

For more details, see Manage and Monitor Access Review Campaigns and Implement Event-Based Access Reviews. 

Access Governance also provides artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-driven insights, such as peer group analysis, outlier detection, and recommendations. Instead of providing only descriptive or diagnostic analytics based insights, it provides predictive and prescriptive analytics based insights. These rich empower access reviewers to remediate access violations and right-size identities privileges. For more details, see Perform User Access Reviews.

Access Governance for OCI and beyond

Access Governance provides cloud identity governance functionalities that enable security and compliance teams to govern access privileges that identities have over Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancies. This regulation provides correlation of identities’ access privileges across the enterprise and enables the security posture for Cloud Infrastructure workloads. 

Access Governance provides deep visibility into who has access to what cloud resource. Its easy-to-comprehend view gives simplified access reviews of OCI policies. This functionality is supported for OCI with plans to support other cloud platforms in the near future. For more details, see Create and Perform Policy Review Campaigns.

Access Governance is designed for vendor-neutral identity architecture. It benefits Oracle customers in using their existing Oracle investments, such as Oracle Identity Governance, Oracle Database service, and OCI. We recommend this choice for organizations looking for product vendors with the knowledge and expertise of managing identity and access management (IAM) challenges.

Conclusion

Access Governance is well-positioned to meet the evolving needs of organizations in the fast-changing business landscape. We strongly believe that Access Governance can play a critical role in assisting organizations in managing their identities and access securely and efficiently.

For more information, visit Access Governance.